Re: m4 domain disappeared from TP

[Bruno Haible]

Hi Benno,

> I removed the m4 domain from the TP (archiving it) because m4 hasn't made
> an announcement to the TP for more than ten years, AND I've looked into
> the latest tarball (1.4.18) and none of the PO files from the TP are there.
> If the PO files are not being used, it is a waste of translators' time to
> let them translate this stuff.

By what you have seen, your decision was right.

However, instead of making release tarballs, there are now weekly
snapshot tarballs [1][2]. And since July 2020, support for producing
internationalized releases of m4 has been added back. [3]

> But as it seems you do depend on these PO files, what is the plan?  When
> do you plan to make an internationalized version of m4?

I can't say anything about the "when", since I'm not an m4 maintainer.
But it looks very much like the next release will contains a POT file
and translations (based on what was in the m4-1.4o release many years ago).

Bruno

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-m4/2020-09/msg00002.html
[2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-m4/2020-03/msg00000.html
[3] 
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=m4.git;a=commit;h=610290de87f486a7c7e492c853254f046e112462